Very cool. Apparently Lifetime is trying to shed the "crappy movie of the week" image and do more things hip. Well, they are heading in the right direction with this one as well as being the home to Project Runway next year.

I (generally) have an intense dislike for sitcoms, but if they cut the laugh track, I'd give it a try. For NPH who is one of the funniest actors ever (something I just discovered via Dr. Horrible, as I don't watch sitcoms), and Aly.
But dead serious, the laugh track is a deal breaker.

I actually don't mind a laugh track that much. Usually I don't even notice it's there (thinking about any specific HIMYM scène, I honestly couldn't tell you if there was edited-in laughter there from just memory), unless someone reminds me or unless something takes me out of the story. And even if I do notice, it doesn't detract from wether or not a story is good and/or funny in itself. But, obviously, YMMV :)

I think it grates more with HIMYM that they can't even use the old "Our actors perform better with an audience present" since the show is filmed first, then shown to an audience (and their reactions recorded)

That said, at least this method means that after each joke they don't have to stand there grinning like idiots while they wait for the laughter to stop.